Chapter 102: Vine and Toad
After an unknown amount of time, Yuan Ming gradually regained consciousness and slowly sat up from the ground.
The surrounding fog was lingering and floating, and he could not see the sun at all when he looked up, so he could not tell how long he had been unconscious.
His mind was still a little fuzzy, and after shaking his head, he recalled what happened before he fell unconscious, and hurriedly looked around.
Although the will of the purple-black demon vine was crushed by his beast control technique, it was not necessarily dead because of its tenacity.
The surroundings were quiet, not to mention the demon vine, there was not a single insect.
The Green Fish Sword was inserted diagonally into the ground next to it, and the blade was slightly illuminated.
"I didn't see the body of the demon vine, which means that this thing is indeed not dead. Did it escape underground?" Yuan Ming muttered to himself.
He just fell into a coma. If the demon vine was still alive, why didn't it take the opportunity to kill him? Could it be scared by the beast control technique?
He patted his cheek hard and stood up.
"Huh!" Yuan Ming suddenly found another abnormality. He didn't know when he had lifted the fur-covering technique, and the black toad skin was gone.
"It's okay that the purple-black demon vine is gone, it may have escaped on its own, but why did the black toad skin also disappear? Could someone have just been here?" Yuan Ming thought of a possibility and hurriedly checked the things on his body.
The things in the storage bag were still there, nothing was lost, the mysterious incense burner also turned into a mark, quietly staying in his arm, there was nothing unusual, even the conspicuous green fish sword was not lost, it didn't look like someone had been here.
Yuan Ming silently picked up the green fish sword and was about to look around, his expression suddenly moved, and he looked in one direction.
There seemed to be something there, connected to his mind, but this connection was very weak, and he couldn't sense it clearly.
"What is it?" Yuan Ming was quite surprised.
To be able to have a mind-to-mind connection, it must be a profound secret method, similar to the beast taming technique, or a magical treasure that drips blood to recognize the master.
His beast taming technique has not yet tamed the spirit beast, and the only thing on his body that has dripped blood to recognize the master is the mysterious incense burner. This burner is now staying in the incense burner mark on his right arm. What else can have a mind-to-mind connection with him?
Yuan Ming didn't know what to do, so he stopped thinking about it and searched for the black toad skin nearby, but found nothing.
"Forget it, the black toad skin is just an auxiliary thing, so just throw it away." He sighed, sat down cross-legged, and circulated the Nine Yuan Jue to restore his mana.
After a while, Yuan Ming's mana was fully restored and the power returned to him.
However, he was sucked away by the purple-black demon vine for a small part of his blood and energy, and his muscles and bones were a little weak, but fortunately it did not hinder his movements.
Yuan Ming took out the white ape skin, but did not perform the fur-covering technique. Instead, he wrapped it around his waist and ran away.
The movement there always concerned his mind, so it would be better to check it out.
A quarter of an hour later, Yuan Ming came to a swamp puddle of several acres in size, and the thing that connected with his mind was in the water.
As the distance got closer, his mind and the puddle were much stronger, and he had already sensed what it was.
"No way!" Yuan Ming was a little unbelievable, this matter was too incredible.
At this moment, the puddle suddenly exploded, and a large wave of water rolled violently. A gray beast emerged from the bottom of the water. It was a gray crocodile several feet long.
The head of this crocodile was dark red, especially its eyes were red like blood, and it looked extremely fierce.
"Oh no, it's an adult blood-headed crocodile!" Yuan Ming recognized this beast.
The strength of an adult blood-headed crocodile is at least the peak of the first intermediate level. The scales on the whole body are extremely tough, and the power is infinite. It is better at water battles and is one of the most powerful intermediate beasts.
However, this blood-headed crocodile looked terrified at this moment, twisting its body quickly and fleeing in a hurry.
Before it escaped far, a slender purple-black thing broke out of the water, wrapped around the body of the blood-headed crocodile, and circled several times very quickly. It was a purple-black vine.
The vine was bare, without a single leaf. The vine was crystal clear, and you could faintly see a trace of blood inside, which was weird and abnormal.
Yuan Ming's pupils shrank suddenly.
Although the purple-black vine had changed greatly in shape, he could see that it was the purple-black demon vine that almost took his life before!
The blood-headed crocodile struggled hard, but the purple-black demon vine was extremely tough. No matter how the blood-headed crocodile struggled, it could not break free.
One end of the demon vine made a "chi chi" sound, became sharp, and then suddenly shot out and hit the blood-headed crocodile's back.
With a light "puff" sound, the demon vine easily pierced through its tough skin and pierced into its body.
The blood-headed crocodile screamed miserably, and its thick and long body trembled violently, with the amplitude getting smaller and smaller.
After a few breaths, the crocodile was completely dead, and its swollen body floated on the water.
There was a "splash" in the water, and a black shadow slowly emerged. It was a fist-sized black toad, with a bulging purple-black bulge growing on its back. It looked like several leaves of a certain plant gathered together, with more than a dozen poison sacs growing around it, and its cold eyes looked at the blood-headed crocodile.
Yuan Ming managed to keep his face calm, but he couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes.
This black toad, in terms of skin color and shape, is exactly the same as his toad skin, except that it is much smaller.
A skin was resurrected out of thin air, there is such a miracle in the world!
The purple-black demon vine shot out from the bulge on the toad's back, and a blood-red light quickly flowed back to the toad's back along the vine. The toad's body surface was covered with a trace of blood light, which soon dissipated, but the body was slightly larger.
The purple-black demon vine flew back and sank into the bulge on the toad's back, disappearing.
The toad seemed to sense something, turned to look at Yuan Ming nearby, with a look of surprise in his eyes, and turned to flee.
"Come here!" Yuan Ming's face was slightly gloomy, and he shouted coldly, pinching a spell with his right hand, and black light flashed at his fingertips.
The black toad trembled, but did not move.
Yuan Ming showed a look of surprise, and urged the beast control technique to the maximum, and the black toad reluctantly turned around and swam over, jumping in front of Yuan Ming.
He raised his hand and pressed it on the black toad's head, and a layer of thick black gas surged out of his palm and rolled into its body.
After a moment, he retracted his palm, and a complex expression appeared on his face, with surprise, joy, but more puzzled.
Yuan Ming had just used the beast control technique and the power of the soul to check that the original black toad skin did grow internal organs for some reason, and there were also soul fluctuations in the body, turning into a living thing.
The purple-black demon vine grew together with the black toad's internal organs through the bulge on its back, becoming an organ in its body. Every time the heart beats, the toad's blood can be transmitted to various parts of its body through the purple-black demon vine in addition to the blood vessels in its body.
The black toad in front of him looks like a black-striped poisonous toad, but in fact, it is a freak formed by the fusion of two completely different creatures.
The purple-black demon vine has a rune mark in its body, which is the beast-controlling rune. It contains the power of Yuan Ming's soul and seems to be condensed from his soul.
Yuan Ming just sensed a trace of connection between himself and the beast-controlling rune, but he just felt it was unbelievable, but the facts were in front of him and he could not question it.
In any case, he accidentally subdued a spirit beast.
With his current cultivation in the Qi Refining Stage, he can no longer subdue a second spirit beast unless he kills the demon vine and destroys the beast-controlling rune in its body.
"Forget it, let's just leave it as a demon vine. This vine has pretty good abilities. Now that it has merged with the black toad, maybe it will develop special magical powers?" After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to keep the vine.
Yuan Ming sat cross-legged in front of the black toad and continued to communicate with it using the beast taming technique to explore the situation inside its body.
More importantly, he needed to understand the magical powers of the black toad now.
After half a day, he stopped casting spells, with a hint of joy in his eyes.
As he had guessed before, after the black toad and the demon vine merged into one, the magical powers of both of them had changed greatly. The most significant point was that the magical powers of the two began to merge. Now the demon vine also contains the venom of the black toad, which greatly increases the attack power of the vine when facing the enemy.
The purple-black demon vine could easily penetrate the skin of the blood-headed crocodile before, precisely because of this.
In addition, the black toad also has the same powerful self-healing ability as the demon vine. Combined with the blood-sucking characteristics of the demon vine, its self-healing ability has actually reached the level of abnormality. As long as it is not fatally injured, it can recover quickly.
"Follow me well in the future!" Yuan Ming exhaled lightly. The black toad has become a monster-like existence. It may not be a bad thing to collect this thing as a spiritual beast.
The black toad glanced at Yuan Ming and did not move.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming slightly increased his mana to activate the beast taming technique. The black toad then called reluctantly, jumped onto his shoulder, and crouched there.
"This black toad was born of mutation, and the beast taming rune I applied was engraved in the body of the demon vine. I don't know how strong the confinement of this beast is... But this little thing is black, and it is not easy to be discovered when hiding." He thought to himself.
Yuan Ming quickly continued to move forward. Now that the matter of taming the spiritual beast has come to an end, with this black toad by his side, his strength has increased a lot, and he plans to continue exploring the island.
The most important thing is that he wants to find the four-eyed golden ape.
Yuan Ming could not forget the effect of those red-core spiritual peaches. If he could find them, combined with the miraculous effect of the Nine Yuan Jue, he could raise his cultivation to the eighth level of Qi Refining in a short period of time, or even the ninth level of Qi Refining.
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Two days later.
Yuan Ming came to a low mountain area on the island. The low mountains here were gray-black, and the rocks exuded a strong yin energy. The air was also filled with a sense of coldness, which made people feel quite uncomfortable.
The vegetation in the low mountains was also very rare, and it was obviously unable to withstand the overwhelming yin energy here.
Yuan Ming took the black toad into it and began to look around.
In the past two days, he searched all over the island. Although he did not find the area where the four-eyed golden ape was located, he had a lot of gains. He found seven or eight precious spiritual materials. If he took them to the sect to exchange, he could also exchange them for a lot of contribution points.
However, this island was surprisingly large. He searched for three days and still could not find the place where he landed last time.
This made him secretly anxious. The time he applied for to leave the clan was only five days, and now there were not many days left. If he couldn't find it, he would have to wait until next time.